is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine).
He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute as a graphic artist.
Until 2011, he was a supporter of the Presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, believing that at that time there was no alternative to them, and that many problems were caused not by the authorities, but by the society itself. Starting in 2011, he opposed the re-election of Putin for a third term in the absence of real elections.
He immigrated to Israel in 2022, where he had a son from an Israeli-Ukrainian wife in his fourth marriage